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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1902
Page
2
The fragment lists the Grand Rapids Tribune with bylines DRUNE & SUTOR and mentions postal handling, subscription rates, and date hints such as July 3, 190, indicating a publication context from Grace Rapids Wisconsin. The text is garbled but centers on the newspaper’s masthead and basic publication logistics.
The council met with Mayor Wheelan in session to bid for sixteen thousand dollar bonds and construction for rebuilding the Ola Bridge with steel while widening walkways. It also authorized curb stone and cross walk stone purchases and studied a riverfront stone wall. several accounts were approved before adjournment.
At a city library commissioner meeting on April 2, the group expressed heartfelt sympathy for the bereaved families of J D Witter. They praised his life of service to libraries and schools, recalling his endowments and bequests to the J D Witter Free Traveling Library and pledging ongoing support in his memory.
Society notices announce East Side M E church Ladies Aid meeting next week with Mrs Lamberton and West Side Ladies Aid meeting next Wednesday with Mrs Frank Moore. St Katherine's Guild meets next. Daly the druggist advertises 40 cent wallpaper at 20 cents per double roll in Wood county.
Real estate and shop notices advertise forty building jets for sale in first ward with prices from £78 to $180, a good 10 room dwelling and lot 80 by 120. Daly’s drug store promotes bicycle tires and special bargains on push carts and baby carriages. The Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul line offers a low price excursion to the Dells of Wisconsin with steamer ride and a special train schedule on July 14 departing Grand Rapids and Port Edwards and returning the same day.
A Milwaukee man introduces bottled bottled minnows for fishing, claiming longer shelf life and natural appearance. The new scentless solution preserves shiners about three to four inches long in bottles, with sales showing strong local interest and potential for growth in coming years. Rhinelander Herald notes anglers report the product as ideal for catching fish in abundance regions.
First publication in Grand Rapids Tribune outline of Wood County probate proceedings for the estate of Jere D. Witter deceased. Emily J. Witter Isaac P. Witter and Bit E. Mead appointed executors. Creditors must file claims by November 7 1472 and present for examination at the probate office in Grand Rapids. Notices run for four weeks.
A list of physicians surgeons dentists and a funeral director with offices over local stores and banks in Grand Rapids Wisconsin and Centralia detailing offices phone numbers downtown locations and after hours contact for eye ear nose throat dentistry homeopathy and funeral services with Mr. Bogoger listed as funeral director and embalmer and each practice offering after hours calls or residence numbers.
Fragmentary notice notes a two sister house to No. 7 in the same block offered as a bargain. It mentions a room with a likely storage area, good woodshed, and a well of water. Garbled terms suggest property features and selling point in a local real estate brief.
Wood County Court in Probate declares that George Bates of Kiladolph Wisconsin petitions to be appointed administrator for the estate of Henry Bates deceased. Hearing set for July 1 1902 in Grand Rapids at 10 o'clock a.m. Notice to interested parties via publication in the Grand Rapids Tribune.
First publication of a probate notice in Grand Rapids Wisconsin. Statement that a will and testament of Stephen Jeffrey, deceased, has been filed and that letters testamentary may be granted. Hearing scheduled in Grand Rapids probate office on the specified date with publication of notice in the Tribune newspaper for three weeks.
No. 6 describes one acre on the west side with a good value four room house, barn and wagon shed priced at 60 dollars. It also offers six large lots with a seven room house and a cool barn located on the west side.
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